Hacker News: sharlos201068

New comment by sharlos201068 in "Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?"

sharlos201068 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:51:55 +0000

They don't need to be sapient to be dangerous though

New comment by sharlos201068 in "Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?"

sharlos201068 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:50:35 +0000

How many people are needed to make up the difference to 100% though?

New comment by sharlos201068 in "My Favorite PostgreSQL 18 Feature: Virtual Generated Columns"

sharlos201068 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 01:31:28 +0000

That's still not a column and isn't included with things like select *

New comment by sharlos201068 in "Areal, Are.na's new typeface"

sharlos201068 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:27:36 +0000

Not on a windows machine it wasn't.

New comment by sharlos201068 in "Run TypeScript code without worrying about configuration"

sharlos201068 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 10:43:02 +0000

I don't think there's much good reason not to compile to JavaScript for production. For local Dev and tests it simplifies things though

New comment by sharlos201068 in "JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management"

sharlos201068 — Mon, 19 May 2025 10:54:34 +0000

I can't think of any JS value that could need cleaning up that isn't an object.

New comment by sharlos201068 in "Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries"

sharlos201068 — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:50:46 +0000

Crawlers aren't interested in fake pages that aren't linked to anywhere, they're crawling the same pages your users are viewing.

New comment by sharlos201068 in "From Languages to Language Sets"

sharlos201068 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:24:34 +0000

That just seems like an evolution of what many of the level 2 languages can do without compromising on their primary definition of being statically typed and interpreted.

New comment by sharlos201068 in "Customizable HTML Select"

sharlos201068 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:08:37 +0000

Maybe, but adding search to this element is still a lot easier than a fully custom one.

New comment by sharlos201068 in "E Ink’s color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays"

sharlos201068 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 01:54:41 +0000

Probably because they'd be cheaper and easier to see in direct sunlight.

New comment by sharlos201068 in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

sharlos201068 — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:04:37 +0000

Even the worst expected impacts of climate change will leave earth tremendously more habitable than anywhere else in the solar system.

New comment by sharlos201068 in "To Be Born in a Bag"

sharlos201068 — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 10:55:18 +0000

That already can and does happen. Orphans are still human, even if they never had parents or family to care for them.

Humanity is something you are, not how you were made, or the circumstances of your birth.

New comment by sharlos201068 in "To Be Born in a Bag"

sharlos201068 — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 10:52:54 +0000

If a person can have a fetus removed from their body without invasive or dangerous surgery and still have it survive, I don't see too many ethical issues with limits on abortion where it's more than just a small clump of cells.

The whole issue with restricting abortion is no one is entitled to the use of my body, even if they need it to live. However if they don't require another person's body and could instead survive outside the body, I think abortion becomes morally worse than allowing it to come to term in an artificial womb.

New comment by sharlos201068 in "Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript"

sharlos201068 — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:48:15 +0000

That’s not correct, there’s several ways the actual type of a value differs from what typescript thinks it is. But soundness isn’t a goal of typescript.

New comment by sharlos201068 in "Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Isolated Declarations"

sharlos201068 — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:39:32 +0000

Types are also documentation for the developers reading and editing the code.

New comment by sharlos201068 in "Ladybird browser spreads its wings"

sharlos201068 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:37:27 +0000

Keeping up with an already built browser is too hard so we’ll create an entirely new browser that takes even more work?

New comment by sharlos201068 in "Ladybird browser spreads its wings"

sharlos201068 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:34:30 +0000

How did it work in the EU? Almost the entire planet uses Chrome including the EU.

New comment by sharlos201068 in "Anti-patterns in event-driven architecture"

sharlos201068 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:25:53 +0000

We use an event driven architecture at work and find it works quite well, however events are for communicating between services across business domains and owned by different teams.

If you have some logic A and B running on user input, I wouldn't be splitting that across different services.

New comment by sharlos201068 in "Anti-patterns in event-driven architecture"

sharlos201068 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:17:11 +0000

How is that any different for an API-driven architecture? You'd need to track down all consumers of your API you're wanting to make a breaking change to.

New comment by sharlos201068 in "The push to ban ransom payments is gaining momentum"

sharlos201068 — Fri, 24 May 2024 08:17:06 +0000

Plus if companies are less likely to pay the ransom, ransoming companies becomes less profitable.